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A  SECOND  DAY 


MARY  CARROWS  SCHOOL. 


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Carry  Deacon  and  her  little  Sister,  looking  at  the  ducks, 


A  SECOND  DAY 


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MARY  CARROWS  SCHOOL. 


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A 

SECOND  DAY 

IN 

MARY  CARROWS  SCHOOL. 


A  cool,  rainy  morning.     The  boys  and 

girls  all  came  to  school  with  thick  shoes  on, 

and  coats  and  shawls  to  protect  them  from 

the  wet.     When  Mary  came,  she  told  her 

scholars  she  was  glad  to  find  the  rain  had 

J       not  kept  them  at  home.     Mary  smiled,  and 

^s       looked  around  to  see  if  they  had  all  come,  and 

2,      she  counted.    Charles  Linn  and  Harry  Linn, 

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and  their  sister  Lucy.  Lily  Forester,  and 
her  brother  Eddy.  Susan  Field,  and  Ellen 
Kaby. 

All  here,  but  Carry  Deacon.  Mary  said, 
"  Who  can  tell  why  Carry  has  not  come  to 
school?  I  do  not  like  to  miss  one  of  my 
little  scholars.  I  like  to  have  them  all  with 
me." 

No  one  could  tell  why  Carry  had  not  come. 
Mary  then  helped  the  smaller  scholars  to 
take  off  their  coats  and  shawls;  and  she 
showed  them  how  to  hang  up  their  wet 
things  to  dry  on  the  pegs  in  the  entry ;  and 
she  bade  them  put  their  umbrellas  into  a 
pail,  which  stood  by  the  door  on  purpose  to 
receive  them.  Mary  asked  if  they  had  all 
brought  their  dinners?     And  one  said,  "I 


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have  brought  mine."  And  another  said,  "  We 
have  brought  ours."  And  Mary  said,  "  We 
have  brought  ours."  It  was  not  far  for  Mary 
and  the  Linns  to  go  home  to  dinner;  but  she 
liked  to  indulge  her  scholars  when  she  could, 
and  she  knew  she  could  not  please  them 
better  than  to  stay  and  dine  with  them  on 
rainy  days. 

The  boys  and  girls  put  their  dinner-baskets 
into  a  little  closet  outside  the  school-room 
door;  and  then  Mary  rang  her  bell — the 
signal  that  it  was  time  to  collect.  While 
they  were  putting  their  dinner-baskets  away, 
Harry  Linn  said  to  Lily  Forester, 

"  Lily,  are  you  glad  it's  a  rainy  day  ?  I 
am." 

Lily  said,  "  I  am  glad,  too." 


10  A   SECOND    DAY    IN 

"  Harry,  what  have  you  got  for  dinner  ?" 

"  I  don't  know/'  Harry  said.  "  Mary  put 
up  our  dinner  while  I  was  looking  at  father 
when  he  was  getting  into  the  wagon." 

"  I'll  tell  you  what  I've  got,  Harry,"  said 
Lily;  "  a  little  pie  with  my  name  on  it !  Do 
you  remember  about  Anne  Lyle,  and  the  lit- 
tle pie  with  her  name  on  it  ?  I  told  mother 
about  it,  when  I  went  home,  and  she  said  if 
I  was  a  good  girl,  she  would  make  me  a  little 
pie,  and  put  my  name  on  it.  Look  here, 
Harry.  I  will  show  you."  And  Lily  lifted 
up  the  cloth  that  was  over  their  dinner,  and 
there  was  a  little  patty-pan  pie,  with  L.  F. 
plainly  stamped  on  it. 

Harry  said,  "  How  nice  that  is  !  Will  you 
give  me  some  of  it,  Lily  ?" 


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And  Lily  told  Harry  she  would  cut  it  in 
halves  at  dinner-time,  and  give  him  the  lar- 
gest half. 

Mary  rang  her  little  bell  again,  and  Harry 
and  Lily  went  into  school. 

While  the  scholars  were  taking  their  seats, 
Carry  Deacon  arrived.  She  was  very  wet, 
and  her  face  was  red  ;  and  she  looked  fretted 
and  tired.     Mary  said, 

"  I  am  glad  to  see  you,  Carry ;  but  what 
is  the  matter  ?     How  did  you  get  so  wet  ?" 

Carry  told  Mary  her  umbrella  was  broken, 
and  it  did  not  keep  the  rain  off. 

"  You  are  so  wet,  Carry,"  said  Mary,  "that 
I  fear  you  will  be  sick ;  and  you  are  too  far 
off  from  home  to  be  sent  back  in  the  rain." 

Mary  thought  a  minute  what  she  should 


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do,  and  then  she  told  Charles  Linn,  (who  was 
the  largest  boy  in  the  school,)  to  run  home 
to  his  mother,  and  ask  her  to  please  to  lend 
a  pair  of  Lucy's  shoes  and  stockings,  for  a 
little  girl  to  wear,  who  had  come  to  school 
very  wet.  Charles  Linn  was  an  obliging,  lively 
boy,  and  he  ran  off  at  once.  While  he  was 
gone,  Mary  took  off  Carry's  wet  shawl,  and 
sent  her  into  the  little  room  adjoining  the 
school-room,  to  wash  her  face  and  her  feet. 
There  was  a  pitcher  of  water  out  in  the  little 
room,  and  soap,  and  a  basin,  and  a  cup,  and 
a  towel.  Before  Carry  had  done  washing 
her  feet,  Charles  Linn  came  back  with  the 
dry  shoes  and  stockings.  Then  Mary  went 
out  to  Carry,  and  she  helped  her  to  put  them 
on.     And  she  took  a  little  pocket  comb  out 


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of  her  pocket,  and  combed  Carry's  hair 
smoothly,  and  then  brought  her  into  school. 
Mary  was  sure  Carry  had  done  something 
wrong ,  but  she  did  not  ask  her  about  it,  be- 
cause Carry  always  told  the  truth.  Mary 
thought  she  would  be  very  kind  to  Carry, 
and  then  Carry  would  perhaps  come  and  tell 
her  about  the  mishaps  of  her  walk  to  school, 
without  being  asked.  Carry  was  a  very 
giddy,  careless  little  girl,  and  she  sometimes 
forgot  to  do  as  she  was  told,  when  she  did 
not  really  mean  to  be  naughty. 

This  was  Grammar  morning;  and  while 
Mary  attended  to  the  grammar-class,  Harry, 
and  Lily,  and  Ellen  Raby,  looked  over  their 
spelling-lesson. 

Charles  Linn  was  at  the  head  of  the  gram- 


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mar-class.  Mary  asked  Charles  if  he  could 
tell  her  what  a  Noun  was  ?  Charles  said,  a 
noun  was  the  grammatical  name  of  any  thing 
that  we  could  see,  or  feel,  or  taste,  or  smell. 
Mary  asked  the  scholar  who  stood  next  in 
the  class,  to  point  to  something  in  the  room 
which  was  a  noun.  She  pointed  to  a  book, 
and  Mary  said,  "  That  is  right."  Then  Mary 
asked  the  next  one,  why  book  was  a  noun, 
and  her  little  scholar  could  not  tell.  The 
one  who  stood  below  her  answered.  She 
said,  book  was  a  noun  because  we  could  see 
it;  and  she  went  above  the  girl  who  had 
missed.  Mary  said  to  one,  "  Think  of  a  noun 
which  you  can  taste,  and  tell  me  what  it  is." 
And  he  answered,  "Apple." 

Carry  Deacon  was  the  one  who  had  missed, 


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and  Mary  asked  Carry  to  think  of  something 
which  she  liked  to  look  at  and  play  with. 
Carry  said,  "  Kittens." 

"  Now  tell  me,  Carry,  what  a  noun  is  ?" 

Carry  answered,  "  A  noun  is  the  name  of 
any  thing  that  we  can  see." 

"Then  what  is  a  kitten?" 

"  0,  now  I  know,"  Carry  said.  "  Kitten  is 
a  noun,  because  I  can  see  it." 

Mary  questioned  her  scholars  until  she 
thought  they  understood  all  about  a  noun; 
and  then  she  told  them,  the  next  grammar- 
lesson  would  be  the  Adjective. 

"Now  you  may  take  your  seats,"  Mary 
said,  "and  look  over  your  .reading-lesson, 
while  I  hear  the  little  ones  spell." 

Harry  Linn,  and  Lily  Forester,  and  Ellen 


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Raby,  said  a  spelling-lesson ;  and  there  were 
some  words  in  their  lesson  which  Mary  ex- 
plained to  them,  because  they  did  not  under- 
stand what  these  words  meant.  Ellen  Raby 
spelled  Wild  Deer,  and  she  asked  Harry  Linn 
if  he  knew  what  a  wild  deer  was  ?  Harry 
said,  "I  guess  it  is  a  goat.  Let  us  ask 
Mary." 

Mary  told  them  it  was  not  a  goat,  and  she 
would  see  if  she  could  find  a  picture  of  a 
wild  deer  to  show  them.  She  had  a  large 
book,  full  of  pictures ;  and  there  were  horses, 
and  cows  and  goats,  and  many  different  kinds 
of  animals  in  it. 

Mary  soon  found  a  picture  of  a  wild  deer, 
and  all  the  scholars  wished  to  come  and 
look  at  it.     She  told  them  they  might  come. 


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And  they  asked  her  to  please  to  tell  them 
something  about  a  wild  deer.  Mary  told  them, 
that  the  part  of  America  where  they  lived, 
and  where  the  school-house  stood,  was  once 
a  great  forest  of  trees,  where  only  Indians 
lived,  and  wild  deers  and  other  animals.  She 
told  them  that  the  Indians  used  to  hunt  the 
wild  deer,  and  shoot  them,  that  they  might 


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have  them  to  eat.  Their  flesh  was  very 
tender  and  good,  and  was  called  venison. 

"  Why  are  there  not  any  wild  deer  here 
now,  Mary?"  asked  Ellen. 

"  Because  there  is  no  place  for  them  to  live 
in.  The  forests,  where  they  like  to  live,  are 
all  cut  down ;  and  now,  instead  of  forests,  we 
have  fine  farms,  and  houses  on  them  to  live 
in." 

"  Who  cut  down  the  forests,  Mary  ?"  said 
Ellen. 

"  Our  forefathers,  who  came  here  a  great 
while  ago." 

"  But  why  did  not  our  forefathers  let  the 
pretty  little  wild  deers  stay  here,  Mary  ?" 

"  They  would  not  stay,"  Mary  said.  "  They 
are  afraid  of  people,  of  men  and  women,  and 


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of  little  boys  and  girls,  and  they  ran  away 
from  them." 

"Where  did  they  go,  Mary?" 

"  Away  into  the  forests,  which  are  many 
hundreds  of  miles  from  here."  When  our 
forefathers  came  here,  they  wanted  houses  to 
live  in,  and  something  to  eat ;  and  they  built 
themselves  houses,  and  cut  down  the  trees 
before  they  could  plant  corn,  and  wheat,  and 
rye,  and  potatoes.  They  had  to  cut  down 
the  trees  before  they  could  make  farms." 

Carry  looked  as  if  she  did  not  quite  un- 
derstand Mary,  and  Mary  said,  "You  know, 
Carry,  your  mother  told  you,  you  might  have 
a  little  garden  of  your  own,  and  she  gave 
you  a  little  piece  of  ground  to  make  your 
garden  of,  which  was  full  of  cedar  bushes ; 


20  A    SECOND    DAY   IN 

and  do  you  not  remember,  you  asked  your 
father  if  he  would  cut  down  the  cedar  bushes, 
so  that  you  could  have  a  nice  smooth  place 
for  your  flower  seeds  ?" 

Carry  said,  "Yes,  I  remember  it,  and  father 
cut  down  all  the  cedar  bushes  for  me,  and 
then  he  dug  up  the  ugly  roots,  and  he  took 
out  a  spade  one  morning  and  dug  up  the 
ground  and  made  it  soft.  And  then  mother 
gave  me  some  flowers  out  of  her  garden,  and 
she  showed  me  how  to  plant  them  in  my 
garden;  and  she  gave  me  some  seeds,  and 
she  showed  me  how  to  make  little  holes  in 
the  ground  to  hold  the  seeds.  I  put  the 
seeds  in  the  little  holes  and  covered  them  up 
with  the  soft  earth,  and  mother  says  they 
will  grow  into  beautiful  flowers  by  and  by." 


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"Do  you  understand  now,  Carry,"  said 
Mary,  "why  our  forefathers  cut  down  the 
forest  trees  ? 

"  The  land  was  covered  all  over  with  trees, 
just  as  your  little  garden  was  covered  over 
with  cedar  bushes ;  and  you  know  you  could 
not  have  a  garden  of  flowers,  until  the  cedar 
bushes  were  cut  away." 

Carry  said,  "  Yes,  I  understand  now.  The 
people  who  came  here  wanted  to  plant  wheat, 
and  rye,  and  corn,  and  they  could  not  plant 
seeds  till  the  great  trees  were  cut  down." 

Charles  Linn  said  he  would  like  to  have 

another  look  at  the  wild-deer  picture;  and 

Mary  allowed  him  and  all  the  scholars  to 

examine  it. 

i  Eddy  Forester  said,  "  The  deer's  horns  were 


22  A    SECOND    DAY   IN 

like  some  his  father  had  at  home,  to  hang  up 
his  Sunday  hat  on;  and  his  father  called 
them  antlers." 

"  Did  your  father  ever  tell  you  where  they 
came  from,  Eddy  V  asked  Mary. 

"  Yes,"  said  Eddy.  "  He  told  us  one  night — 
Lily  and  me — that  they  were  the  horns  of  a 
deer,  which  our  great-grandfather  shot  a  long 
time  ago,  on  the  spot  where  our  house  now 
stands." 

"  Oh,  yes,"  Lily  said,  "  I  remember,  it  was 
before  we  went  to  bed.  I  was  sitting  on 
father's  lap,  and  Eddy  was  sitting  on  my 
little  stool,  and  mother  was  making  me  a 
new  frock,  when  father  told  us  about  the 
Indians." 

"Yes,"  Eddy  said,  "he  told  us  that  when 


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our  great-grandfather  came  to  this  country 
from  England,  there  was  only  a  great  forest 
of  trees  here,  and  no  houses  to  be  seen.  He 
lived  in  a  log-hut,  which  he,  and  the  men 
who  came  with  him,  built  for  themselves: 
and  they  had  not  any  thing  to  eat  but  the 
deer  and  wild  turkeys  which  they  shot. 
Father  told  us  all  that,  and  he  said  the 
antlers  had  been  kept  ever  since  our  great- 
grandfather shot  the  wild  deer  in  the  forest." 

Mary  said,  "  Now  I  will  put  away  the  large 
picture  book,  and  you  may  all  take  your 
seats,  while  I  prepare  the  black  board."  Mary 
told  all  her  scholars  to  stand  up,  and  they 
answered  in  concert  the  questions  she  asked. 

She  drew  a  mark  on  the  black  board  thus, 


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and  told  them  to  say  what  she  had 


drawn;  and  they  answered  in  concert,  "a 
straight  line."  Then  she  drew  other  figures, 
thus: 

:  Parallel  lines. 

I An  angle. 

A  A  triangle. 

D  A  quadrangle. 

O  A  circle. 

Y~\  A  semicircle. 

f\  A  hemisphere. 

\  An  inclined  plane. 
After  Mary  had  exercised  her  boys  and 
girls  in  this  way,  until  she  thought  they 
knew  all  the  figures  she  had  drawn,  she  told 
them  to  say  the  multiplication  table  in  con- 
cert.    Ellen  Kaby  called  this  class  the  con- 


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cert  class,  and  they  liked  to  be  in  a  class 
altogether. 

Lily  said  she  would  like  black-board  exer- 
cises every  day;  but  Mary  was  wiser  than 
her  little  scholar,  and  she  knew  that  Lily 
would  get  very  tired  of  doing  the  same  thing 
every  day.  Mary  liked  her  scholars  to  be 
"always  busy,  never  weary,"  and  she  gave 
them  different  lessons  for  each  day. 

Now  it  was  recess  time.  And  what  do  my 
little  readers  think  Mary's  scholars  did  during 
recess  time,  when  it  rained  so  fast  that  they 
could  not  go  out  of  doors  to  play?  They 
played  in  the  school-room.  They  played 
Blindman  Buff  and  "  Poor  Pussey  wants  a 
corner,"  and  "Hunt  the  Slipper."  Mary  lent 
them  her  shoe  to  play  with,  and  when  they 


26  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

were  tired  of  playing  Hunt  the  Slipper,  and 
Puss  in  the  Corner,  they  gave  Mary  her  shoe 
again,  and  asked  her  if  they  might  play 
Blindman  Buff.  She  said  they  might,  but 
not  in  the  school-room.  She  told  them  to 
go  into  the  little  room  adjoining  the  school- 
room, where  Blindman  Buff,  whoever  he 
might  happen  to  be,  could  not  do  any  mis- 
chief. There  was  no  ink  nor  desks  in  the 
little  room,  and  he  could  walk  or  run  about 
there  without  danger  of  hurting  himself. 
They  begged  Mary  to  go  with  them,  and  she 
said  she  would.    They  all  ran  off,  singing, 

Here  we  go 

All  together, 
We  have  fun 

In  rainy  weather. 


MARY    CARROW's    SCHOOL.  27 

One,  two,  three, 

Four,  and  away, 
We  are  glad 

Of  a  rainy  day  ! 

Mary  took  her  handkerchief  and  asked, 
who  would  be  Blindman  Buff  first.  They 
all  wanted  to  be  blindfolded  first;  and  Mary 
said,  "  What  shall  I  do  to  please  all  my  little 
scholars?  You  cannot  all  be  Blindman  Buff 
at  once;  so  I  will  take  the  oldest  first." 
Charles  Linn  was  the  oldest  scholar;  and 
after  Mary  had  bound  her  handkerchief  over 
his  eyes,  he  could  not  see  any  thing  at  all. 
He  put  out  his  hands,  and  felt  about  the 
room,  and  at  last  he  caught  little  Ellen  Raby. 
Ellen  was  so  much  delighted,  and  laughed  so 
merrily  to  see  how  queer  Charles  looked,  that 


28  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

he  knew  by  the  sound  of  her  voice  where  to 
find  her.  Carry  Deacon  came  up  to  Mary 
and  looked  as  if  she  wanted  to  say  something 
to  her,  and  as  if  she  did  not  like  to  say  it. 
Then  Mary  took  Carry  by  the  hand,  and  she 
said, 

"  Do  you  want  to  talk  to  me,  Carry  ?" 

Carry  said,  "  Yes,  but  not  before  anybody. 
Let  us  go  back  into  the  school-room."  Mary 
went  with  Carry  into  the  school-room  while 
the  scholars  were  at  play,  and  she  said,  "  Now, 
Carry  dear,  come  and  tell  me  all  about  your 
getting  to  school  so  late  this  morning." 

Carry.  "I  stopped  to  see  Mike  Terry's 
kittens." 

Mary.  "How  did  you  know  about  the 
kittens?" 


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MARY    CARROw's     SCHOOL.  29 

Carry.  "  When  I  was  going  past  neighbour 
Terry's,  Mike  came  out,  and  he  had  a  por- 
ringer of  milk,  and  he  was  carrying  it  with 
both  his  hands  for  fear  it  would  spill." 

Mary.  "  Well,  Carry,  did  you  stop  and 
ask  Mike  what  he  had  in  the  porringer  ?" 

Carry.  "  Yes !  Mike  said  it  was  milk  for 
the  cat.  He  said,  the  old  cat  had  some 
kittens  in  the  night,  and  he  was  going  to  feed 
her." 

Mary.     "  What  else  did  Mike  say  ?" 

Carry.  "  He  said  the  kittens  were  down 
in  the  barn,  and  the  old  cat  took  hold  of  the 
kittens  by  their  necks,  with  her  mouth.  Mike 
asked  me  to  come  and  see  them." 

Mary.  "  Did  you  tell  Mike  you  were  on 
your  way  to  school,  ai^d  had  not  leave  to  stop." 


30  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

Carry,     "  I  only  told  him  I  was  going  to 
school,  I  did  not  tell  him  about  leave  to  stop." 

Mary.  "  What  did  Mike  say  to  that  ?" 
-  Carry.  "  He  said  he  did  not  like  to  go  to 
school.  The  master  was  cross.  He  would  ra- 
ther stay  at  home  and  play ;  and  then  I  went 
with  him  to  see  the  kittens.  One  was  black, 
and  one  had  white  spots  on  its  tail,  and  one 
was  yellow,  just  like  the  old  cat,  only  it  was  a 
kitten.  The  kittens  were  little  bits  of  things. 
They  stayed  close  together.  They  climbed 
over  one  another's  backs  and  heads.  Mike 
said  that  did  not  hurt  them  at  all.  It  was  the 
way  they  kept  one  another  warm." 

Mary.     "  How  long  did  you  stay,  Carry  V 

Carry.     "I  dont  know,  but  not  a   great 
while.     The  kittens  were  so  pretty,  I  liked 


MARY    CARROw's    SCHOOL.  31 

to  look  at  them.  I  and  Mike  waited  to  see 
if  the  big  cat  would  take  them  up  by  the 
neck,  with  her  mouth.  Mike  said  it  looked 
as  if  she  would  eat  them  up." 

Mary.  "  How  did  you  feel,  while  you 
were  there  ?" 

Carry.  "  I  felt  most  about  the  kittens,  they 
were  such  little  dear  tiny  things.  I  wanted 
to  take  them  up,  and  kiss  them,  but  Mike 
said  if  I  did,  the  old  cat  would  scratch  me." 

Mary.     "  Did  you  think  about  school  ?" 

Carry.  "  Yes.  When  I  had  done  looking 
at  the  kittens,  I  did.  I  told  Mike,  now,  I 
must  go,  I  am  afraid  it  is  late.  Mike  said,  if 
he  was  me,  he  would  not  go  to  school  at  all. 
It  was  pleasant  to  stay  at  home  and  play. 
I  told  Mike  we  had  a  pleasant  time  at   our 


32  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

school,  rainy  days  as  well  as  sunny  days,  and 
I  liked  to  go  all  days.  Then  Mike  showed 
me  a  new  way  to  school.  He  said  it  was 
nearer  than  to  go  by  the  road.  I  got  lost, 
and  did  not  know  where  I  was.  I  cried,  and 
wished  I  had  not  gone  with  Mike." 

Mary.  "I  thought  you  told  me  your  um- 
brella was  broken :  how  was  it  done,  Carry  ?" 

Carry.  "  I  forgot  to  put  it  away  the  last 
time  it  rained,  and  it  was  in  the  kitchen,  and 
somebody  broke  it." 

Mary.  "  How  did  you  get  to  school  at 
last?" 

Carry.  "  I  walked  and  walked,  and  I  ran 
some  of  the  way,  and  I  called  i  Mother/  and 
'Mary.'  I  was  afraid.  When  I  walked  a  lit- 
tle farther,  I  got  to  the  play-woods,  and  then 


MARY    CARROWS    SCHOOL.  66 

I  saw  the  tool-house  where  we  keep  our  play- 
things. And  then  I  was  glad,  and  I  knew  I 
was  almost  here." 

Mary.  "  Does  my  little  Carry  think  she 
has  suffered  enough  to  make  her  remember 
that  she  should  not  stop  by  the  way  coming 
to  school  ?  You  know,  Carry,  the  rule  is, 
that  the  scholars  must  not  stop  on  their  way 
to  school,  nor  when  they  are  returning,  with- 
out leave  from  their  parents,  or  from  me." 

Carry.     « I  forgot  that." 

Carry  was  a  very  affectionate  little  girl, 
and  she  put  her  arms  round  Mary's  neck,  and 
said,  *  Will  you  kiss  me  now,  Mary,  and  for- 
give me  ?" 

Mary  kissed  Carry,  and  said,  "  I  will  for- 
give you,  dear,  but  do  you  not  know  that 


34  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

when  we  do  wrong,  even  in  a  very  little 
thing,  we  must  ask  our  Heavenly  Father  to 
forgive  us  ?  Whenever  you  do  wrong,  a  stain 
is  left  upon  your  soul — upon  that  part  of  you 
which  lives  for  ever  and  ever.  God's  good 
spirit  within  you  makes  you  sensible  of  this 
stain ;  makes  you  feel  that  all  is  not  right 
with  you ;  and  then  you  are  unhappy,  un- 
comfortable; and  you  cannot  feel  happy 
again  until  the  stain  is  taken  away.  I  do 
not  see  it.  I  cannot  take  it  away :  but  God  sees 
it,  and  can  take  it  away.  And  if  you  are  really 
sorry  and  ask  Him,  He  will  take  it  away, 
and  make  you  happy  again.  I  will  give  you  a 
little  prayer  to  learn  ;  and  before  you  lie  down 
in  your  bed  to-night,  .think  over  what  you 
have  been  doing  to-day.    You  must  try  to  ask 


MARY    CARROW'S    SCHOOL.  35 

your  Heavenly  Father's  forgiveness  before 
you  go  to  sleep,  and  then  you  can  repeat 
these  verses." 

"  Will  you  say  the  little  prayer  to  me, 
Mary?" 

"  Yes." 

Heavenly  Father !  I  am  little, 

And  I  often  go  astray ; 
Wilt  Thou  love  me,  and  forgive  me, 

When  I  do  not  keep  thy  way? 

I  have  read  about  Thy  mercy, 

In  the  Holy  Bible  shown; 
Wilt  Thou  bring  me  to  my  Saviour, 

For  I  cannot  come  alone  ? 

He  once  took  up  little  children, 
And  they  leaned  upon  His  arm, 

And  I  want  Him  to  take  me  up, 
So  that  I'll  be  safe  from  harm. 


36  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

Then  Mary  lent  Carry  the  little  book  which 
had  the  prayer  in  it,  and  she  told  her  she 
might  take  it  home  with  her. 

"  There  is  one  thing  more,  I  wish  to  say  to 
you,  Carry.  I  wish  you  to  try  to  think  about 
what  you  are  told  to  do.  What  shall  I  do 
to  make  my  little  Carry  remember  V 

Carry.  "  Don't  call  me  careless  Carry,  will 
you?" 

Mary.     "  Does  any  one  call  you  so  ?" 

Carry.  "  Yes !  And  I  do  not  like  to  be 
called  careless  Carry." 

Mary.  "  Suppose  you  try  not  to  deserve 
the  name." 

Carry.     "  How  shall  I  try,  Mary  ?" 

Mary.     "  I  will  help  you." 

Carry.     "  Shall  we  begin  now?" 


MARY    CARROw's    SCHOOL.  37 

Mary,  "Yes.  All  the  scholars,  except 
you,  put  away  their  books  and  slates,  before 
they  went  out  to  play,  and  yours  are  all  out 
of  place.  Go,  now,  and  put  them  neatly  into 
your  desk." 

Carry  ran  away  to  do  as  Mary  told  her. 
And  then  Mary  rang  the  bell  for  school. 

Now  it  was  reading  time.  Harry  Linn, 
and  Lily  Forester,  and  Ellen  Eaby,  were  in 
a  class  by  themselves.  They  were  just  learn- 
ing to  read.  Ellen  Raby  was  older  than 
Harry  and  Lily,  but  she  did  not  know  enough 
to  be  in  the  first  class. 

After  all  the  scholars  had  done  reading, 
they  took  their  slates  to  do  sums,  and  make 
figures.  Mary  showed  those  who  could  ci- 
pher, how  to  do  their  sums,  and  she  set  lines 


38  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

of  figures  for  the  little  ones.  Mary  made 
pens,  and  set  copies  in  the  copy  books  for 
afternoon. 

One  of  the  copies  was, 

Another  copy  was, 


Another  copy  was, 


When  morning  school  was  done,  Mary  had 
all  the  books  and  the  slates  neatly  put  into 
their  places.  Carry  Deacon  came  running  up 
to  Mary  to  tell  her  that  she  had  put  every 
thing  into  her  desk  that  belonged  there,  and 


MARY    CARROW'S    SCHOOL.  39 

that  the  lid  would  shut  down  closely.  Mary 
went  to  Carry's  desk  to  look  into  it,  and  she 
found  that  the  things  were  not  all  tumbled 
in,  helter-skelter,  but  that  each  book  was 
in  its  right  place ;  and  she  said  Carry  was 
a  good  little  girl,  because  she  was  trying  to 
improve. 

Carry  looked  very  much  pleased,  when 
Mary  praised  her.  And  she  said,  "  I  do  love 
you,  Mary,  you  are  so  kind  to  me.  You  never 
call  me  careless  Carry."     ~ 

The  boys  and  girls  amused  themselves  as 
they  liked  until  dinner-time. 

My  little  readers  will  remember,  that  they 
had  all  brought  their  dinner  to  school,  be- 
cause it  was  a  rainy  day.  They  will  remem- 
ber too,  that  Mary  lived  with  Harry  Linn's 


40  A   SECOND    DAY    IN 

father  and  mother.  Her  basket  was  quite  a 
large  one,  with  dinner  enough  in  it  for  four : 
Charles  and  Lucy  and  Harry  Linn  and  Mary. 
When  it  was  dinner-time,  Mary  had  the 
napkins  taken  out  of  each  basket,  and  she 
spread  them  all  upon  a  little  table  which 
stood  in  the  corner  of  the  school-room,  and 
these  served  for  a  table-cloth.  Then  she  took 
out  of  every  basket  all  that  was  in  it.  There 
was  bread  and  butter  and  cold  meat  and 
biscuit  and  apple  pies.  Mary  had  brought 
a  large  pie,  and  some  of  the  scholars  had 
brought  small  pies.  Mary  placed  the  large 
pie  in  the  centre  of  the  table,  and  the  little 
pies  around  it.  Lily  Forester's  patty-pan  pie, 
with  her  name  on  it,  was  the  least  of  all.  Lily 
capered  around  the  table,  and  was  wild  with 


MARY    CARROW'S    SCHOOL.  41 

delight.  Ellen  Raby  said  the  large  pie  was 
the  mother-pie  and  the  little  pies  were  the 
children. 

Charles  Linn  took  the  pitcher  and  brought 
some  fresh  water  from  the  spring,  and  Mary 
put  the  little  mug  which  was  in  the  wash- 
room, on  the  table,  for  a  drinking  cup.  When 
the  table  was  arranged,  Mary  allowed  Ellen 
Raby  to  ring  the  bell.  She  rang  the  bell  very 
loud,  and  she  ran  about,  saying  to  every  one, 
"  Please  to  come  to  dinner." 

Before  they  began  to  eat,  they  sat  in  silence* 

*  This  incident  contains  a  historical  fact.  In  many 
parts  of  Pennsylvania,  which  were  originally  settled  by 
members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  some  of  their  social 
customs  are  still  adhered  to,  even  by  families  not  of  their 
sect,  and  one  of  these  customs  is  to  observe  a  short  season 
of  silent  supplication  before  meals. 


42  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

for  a  little  while ;  and  then  Mary  asked  her 
scholars,  if  they  knew  why  we  sit  in  silence 
before  we  partake  of  our  meals?  Charles 
Linn  said,  u  We  do  it  that  we  may  think  of 
our  Heavenly  Father,  before  we  eat  our  food, 
because  He  gives  it  to  us."  "  Yes,"  said  Mary, 
"  He  gives  us  every  good  thing  that  we  have, 
and  we  should  try,  when  we  receive  his  gifts, 
to  ask  Him  to  give  us  grateful  hearts  for 
them.  We  cannot  give  ourselves  kind  pa- 
rents and  pleasant  homes  and  health,  nor 
abilities  to  provide  food  and  raiment.  God 
must  give  them  to  us  or  we  must  go  without 
them. 

"  Shall  I  repeat  to  my  little  scholars  some 
verses  which  my  mother  taught  me  to  say 
when  I  was  about  as  old  as  Lily  Forester  V 


MARY    CARROW's    SCHOOL.  43 

They  all  said,  "  Yes,  oh  do,  before  we  eat 
our  dinner."     And  Mary  repeated : 

When  my  little  daughter  comes 

To  the  board  with  plenty  spread, 
She  should  try  to  think  of  Him, 

By  whose  bounty  she  is  fed. 

From  our  Heavenly  Father's  hand 
Come  our  blessings,  health  and  food, 

Parents,  homes,  and  all  we  have, 
All  we  know  and  think  of  good. 

Then,  my  darling,  try  to  say 

To  thyself  a  little  prayer ; 
Ask  God  for  a  grateful  heart 

At  thy  meals,  and  everywhere. 

Mary  talked  with  her  scholars  while  they 
ate  their  dinner ;  and  after  dinner  was  over, 
each  scholar  put  the  plates  and  other  things 


44  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

that  belonged  to  her  into  her  own  basket. 
There  was  not  much  left,  for  they  were  all 
very  hungry.  Then  they  went  into  the 
wash-room,  one  at  a  time,  and  washed  their 
hands  and  faces.  Mary  required  her  scholars 
to  eat  slowly  and  chew  their  food  well ;  and 
eating  their  dinner  and  washing  and  putting 
their  baskets  away,  had  occupied  so  much 
time,  that  now  it  was  almost  two  o'clock,  and 
school  in  the  afternoon  commenced  at  two 
o'clock.  Mary  had  no  recess  during  the  after- 
noon on  rainy  days,  and  she  closed  her  school 
at  four  o'clock.  She  said  it  was  not  healthful 
to  remain  longer  than  that  time  in  a  close 
room.  It  had  rained  so  fast  all  day  that  the 
scholars  could  not  go  out  to  take  the  air.     • 


MARY    CARROW's    SCHOOL.  45 

When  Mary  said  it  was  school-time, 
Charles  Linn  called  out,  "  Now  for  school." 
"  Now  for  school."  "  May  I  ring  the  bell  ?" 
Mary  told  him  he  might.  And  he  rang  the 
bell. 

Carry  Deacon  did  not  come  when  the  bell 
was  rung,  nor  Ellen  Raby,  nor  Henry  Linn, 
nor  Lily  Forester.  Mary  asked  Charles 
to  go  and  look  for  them,  and  he  found  them 
in  the  wash-room.  They  had  taken  all  the 
dinner  baskets  oat  of  the  closet,  and  they 
were  playing  "Go  to  market  and  sell  apples." 
Carry  Deacon  had  a  basket  on  her  head,  and 
Ellen  Raby  had  one  on  her  arm,  and  Harry 
Linn  had  tied  a  string  to  their  large  basket, 
and  he  and  Lily  Forester  were  pulling  it 
along.      They  pretended  the  basket  was  a 


46  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

cart,  and  that  it  had  apples  in  it,  and  that 
Harry  was  Sam  the  driver,  and  Lily  was 
Sam's  wife,  and  she  was  going  to  market  with 
him  to  measure  out  the  apples  in  a  half-peck 
measure. 

They  were  all  in  high  glee,  and  Carry  Dea- 
con said,  "Isn't  it  nice  on  rainy  days?" 

Charles  Linn  told  them  it  was  school-time. 
They  asked  Charles  to  help  them  put  the 
baskets  away.  Charles  was  a  kind  little  boy, 
and  he  helped  them,  and  he  untied  the  string 
which  Harry  had  put  to  the  large  basket,  and 
then  they  all  came  into  school. 

When  the  scholars  were  in  their  seats,  Mary 
said,  "  Which  of  my  little  boys  and  girls  have 
their  Definitions  ready?" 

The  little  ones  did  not  learn  definitions,  but 


MARY    CARROW's    SCHOOL.  47 

the  larger  ones  did,  and  they  had  been  study- 
ing their  lessons  between  schools.  After 
Mary  had  heard  the  definition-class,  she  called 
the  little  ones,  and  asked  them  if  they  re- 
membered what  lesson  they  said  on  the  se- 
cond day  of  the  week.  Carry  Deacon  said, 
"  Oh,  yes,  this  is  question-afternoon."  Mary 
said,  "That  is  true,  Carry,  and  I  am  glad  to 
find  you  remember  it." 

These   are   some  of  the  questions  which 
M*ry  asked  her  little  scholars. 

How  many  hands  have  you  ? 

How  many  feet  have  you  ? 

How  many  fingers  ? 

How  many  thumbs  ? 

How  manjrtoes  on  each  foot  ? 

How  many  on  both  feet  ? 


48  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

Which  is  your  right  hand  ? 

Which  is  your  left  hand  ? 

How  many  senses  have  you  ? 

What  are  your  senses  called  ? 

What  do  you  taste  with  ? 

What  do  you  smell  with  ? 

What  do  you  hear  with  ? 

What  do  you  handle  with  ? 

What  do  you  see  with  ? 
Now,  my  little  readers,  suppose  you  try  to 
answer  these  questions.  Your  kind  mothers, 
or  your  older  brother  or  sister,  will  tell  you 
if  you  answer  them  correctly.  Mary's  little 
scholars  missed  some,  but  they  answered  most 
of  them  correctly. 

When  they  had  done  answering  questions, 
Mary  told  them  they  might  go  to  their  seats 


econtr  13  a  g. 


The  good  muffin  man.     p.  49, 


MARY    CARROW's    SCHOOL.  49 

and  write  on  their  slates.     Their  copies  were' 
already  set. 

Instead  of  having  a  recess,  Mary  read  to 
her  scholars  a  pretty  story.  It  was  a  true 
story  about  a  good  muffin-man. 

STORY    OF    THE    GOOD    MUFFIN-MAN. 

There  was  once  a  muffin-man  who  carried 
muffins  about  the  streets  of  a  large  city  to 
sell.  He  carried  them  in  two  square  baskets, 
on  his  shoulders.  In  the  street  where  he 
served  the  people  with  muffins,  a  poor  sailor's 
wife  lived.  She  was  sick,  and  she  could  not 
work,  and  she  had  not  any  body  to  give  her 
money,  for  her  husband  was  a  sailor,  and  he 
was  out  at  sea  in  a  great  ship.     She  had  a 


50  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

-young  child,  and  she  was  so  poor  that  she  had 
not  even  enough  money  to  buy  bread.  The 
good  muffin-man  stopped  every  day  and  gave 
her  some  muffins  out  of  one  of  his  baskets  to 
eat.  Whenever  the  muffin-man  stopped,  the 
little  child  would  run  away  from  her  mo- 
ther to  come  to  him,  because  she  was  so 
glad  to  see  him. 

Mary's  scholars  thought  the  muffin-man 
was  very  good  and  kind.  There  was  a  pic- 
ture over  the  story,  and  Mary  showed  them 
the  picture.  After  they  had  talked  about 
the  poor  sailor's  wife,  and  the  little  child,  and 
the  muffin-man,  Carry  Deacon  asked,  "  Why 
the  people  did  not  make  muffins  at  home  ?" 
Mary  told  her,  "  That  in  large  cities,  such  as 
Boston,   New   York   and   Philadelphia,  the 


Second   3Bag. 


The  fruit  woman  on  her  -xaj  to  town      p.  51 


MARY    CARROW's    SCHOOL.  51 

people  who  lived  there  bought  many  things, 
which  the  country  people  made  at  home. 
They  bought  their  milk  and  their  butter  and 
their  meat  and  their  eggs,  because  the  houses 
were  built  up  closely  together,  and  there  was 
not  room  enough,  in  towns,  to  keep  cows  and 
pigs  and  chickens.  Mary  asked  Carry  if  she 
had  never  seen  people  carrying  milk  and 
bread  and  fruit  about,  when  she  was  in 
Philadelphia."  Carry  said,  "Yes,  she  had 
seen  a  man  carrying  a  bucket  with  bright 
hoops  around  it ;  and  her  aunt,  at  whose 
house  she  stayed,  told  her  the  bucket  had  milk 
in  it."  And  Carry  said,  "  She  saw  a  woman 
carrying  oranges  in  a  basket,  and  the  woman 
knocked  at  people's  doors,  and  asked  them  to 
buy  her  rrangt-^  "   * 


52  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

Mary  went  around  among  her  scholars, 
while  they  were  writing,  to  see  that  they 
held  their  pens  and  pencils  properly.  She 
rubbed  out  some  of  Lily  Forester's  straight 
marks  and  round  o's,  because  her  strokes 
were  crooked  and  her  o's  were  not  well 
formed,  and  Lily  said  she  would  try  again. 

While  the  scholars  were  writing,  Mary 
looked  over  the  Bible  to  select  a  chapter  to 
read  at  the  close  of  the  school. 

Carry  Deacon  came  up  to  Mary  and  whis- 
pered to  her,  to  please  to  read  about  the  beau- 
tiful garden  where  Adam  and  Eve  lived  a 
great  while  ago  and  talked  with  our  Heavenly 
Father. 

When  school  was  done,  Mary  called  her 
little  boys  and  girl^  to  come  ?  nd  isj  t  around 


MARY    CARROW's    SCHOOL.  53 

her  while  she  read  to  them  the  Bible.  She 
read  to  them  about  God  creating  the  world ; 
and  how  he  made  the  heavens,  and  the  bright 
stars,  and  the  earth  and  all  the  people  that 
live  on  it,  and  the  flowers,  and  the  birds  and 
beasts,  and  every  thing  that  has  life.  And 
then  she  read  to  them  about  Adam,  the  first 
man,  and  Eve,  the  first  woman,  and  about 
the  beautiful  garden,  called  the  garden  of 
Eden,  where  they  lived,  and  where  they  were 
very  happy,  until  they  were  disobedient;  and 
because  they  were  disobedient  they  had  to 
go  out  of  the  beautiful  garden  of  Eden. 

"Is  God,  who  made  every  thing,  our  Hea- 
venly Father,  Mary  ?"  said  Harry  Linn. 

"Yes,  Harry." 

"  Did  God  send  Adam  and  Eve  out  of  the 


54  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

beautiful  garden  because  they  were  disobe- 
dient ?"  asked  Carry  Deacon. 

"Yes/'  said  Mary. 

"But,  Mary,  I  thought  you  said  our  Hea- 
venly Father  loved  us,  and  was  kind  to  us. 
I  do  not  think  it  was  kind  to  send  poor  Adam 
and  Eve  away.  Why  did  not  God  forgive 
them  for  being  disobedient,  as  you  did  me 
this  morning." 

"  They  did  not  ask  God  to  forgive  them," 
Mary  said ;  "  And  you  know,  Carry,  that  when 
we  have  done  wrong,  we  cannot  be  forgiven, 
until  we  are  sorry  that  we  have  done  wrong, 
and  sincerely  ask  our  Heavenly  Father  to 
forgive  us." 

"  Did  Adam  and  Eve  know  they  were  to  be 
sent  away,  if  they  were  naughty?"  asked  Carry. 


MARY    CARROW's     SCHOOL.  55 

Eddy  Forester  said,  "Do  you  not  remem- 
ber, Carry,  Mary  read  to  us,  that  God  showed 
Adam  and  Eve  one  tree  in  the  garden,  and 
told  them  not  to  touch  it  ?  and  he  told  them 
if  they  ate  the  fruit  on  that  tree,  they  should 
surely  die." 

"  Oh,  yes,"  Carry  said,  "  I  remember  now," 
and  the  scholars  all  said  they  remembered  that. 

"Well,"  Mary  said,  "you  know  God  is 
true.  He  always  keeps  his  word.  We  must 
believe  every  word  of  God ;  but  if  God  should 
not  do  what  he  said  He  would  do,  we  could 
not  believe  Him.  He  said  he  would  punish 
Adam  and  Eve,  if  they  ate  the  fruit  which 
he  told  them  not  to  touch,  and  if  he  had 
not  punished  them,  how  could  we  believe 
every  word  God  had  spoken." 


56  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

Carry  said,  "  Does  God  love  us  any  more, 
when  He  punishes  us,  Mary  ?" 

"  Yes,"  Mary  said,  "  He  punishes  us  some- 
times when  we  do  wrong,  because  He  loves 
us  and  wants  to  make  us  love  and  obey 
Him.  You  know,  Carry,  your  mother  sends 
you  away  from  her,  when  you  are  naughty, 
to  punish  you;  and  she  does  it  because  she 
wants  to  make  you  a  good,  obedient  little 
girl;  and  do  you  not  think  your  mother  loves 

you?" 

"  Oh,  yes,"  Carry  said ;  "  my  mother  says 
she  loves  me,  and  I  know  she  does." 

Little  Ellen  Raby  was  leaning  against 
Mary ;  she  was  very  tired.  Harry  and  Lily 
had  slipped  off  from  the  bench  where  they 
were  sitting,  and  they  were  lying  on  the  floor, 


MARY    CARROW's    SCHOOL.  57 

looking  up  into  Mary's  face  while  she  was 
talking. 

Then  Mary  said,  "  My  little  scholars 
are  weary,  they  have  been  at  school  long 
enough." 

The  bigger  boys  and  girls  begged  Mary 
to  talk  to  them  some  more  about  Adam 
and  Eve.  They  said  they  were  not  weary. 
Charles  Linn  said  he  would  hold  Ellen  Kaby 
on  his  lap,  while  Harry  and  Lily  rested  on 
the  floor.  But  Mary  looked  at  her  watch, 
and  she  said,  "We  will  not  talk  any  more 
now.  It  is  after  four  o'clock.  It  is  time 
for  us  all  to  go  home.  It  does  not  rain 
much  now,  and  we  can  go  home  without 
getting  very  wet." 

Then  Mary  put  away  the  Bible,  and  she 


58  A    SECOND    DAY    IN 

went  and  brought  Carry  Deacon's  shoes  and 
stockings  to  her. 

"Now  Carry,  dear,"  Mary  said,  "go  and 
take  off  the  borrowed  shoes  and  stockings, 
and  put  on  your  own.  Yours  are  quite 
dry." 

Carry  did  as  she  was  bidden,  and  then 
Mary  took  the  shoes  and  stockings  which 
Carry  left  off,  and  put  them  into  her  basket ; 
for  my  little  readers  will  remember  they  be- 
longed to  Lucy  Linn,  and  we  must  never 
forget  to  return  carefully  and  in  good  season 
any  thing  that  we  borrow.  Mary  took  care 
that  each  scholar  had  the  right  umbrella  and 
the  right  dinner  basket,  and  then  she  kissed 
them  all,  and  they  went  home. 

Charles  Linn  said  he  did  not  care  for  a 


MARY   CARROWS    SCHOOL. 


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Lucy,  and  Mary  and  Lucy  and  Harry  walked 
home  together. 


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